![]() Rosa is primarily concerned with the oldest question on the philosophical agenda: ‘What constitutes the good life?’ and how to achieve personal happiness? Unlike his illustrious predecessors Walter benjamin, Theodor Adorno or Herbert Marcuse, Rosa does not openly confront the ideology behind the neoliberal order. ![]() Paradoxically, the technology which was meant to simplify our daily lives and free us from boring, time-consuming chores, has become the very source of contemporary anxiety and misery. ![]() Heir to the Frankfurt School for Social research, the German philosopher and sociologist Hartmut Rosa offers a new approach of twenty-first life after his well-received critique of our high-speed society Alienation and Acceleration, published in 2010.Ĭonstantly bombarded by external stimuli, we seem to have lost the will and more importantly, the time to stop and take stock of what were are and what we are expecting out of our personal existence. In a technological world driven by intense productivity and relentless competition, individuals are caught between the imperative to be more efficient ‘performers’ and the natural need to slow down, recuperate and revive themselves.
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